i like Pharo
and i want Pharo to do well and i want to use Pharo
and i like very much all the work being done on Pharo yes
I’m very impressed and hopeful
and i would not wish for that to slow down
but can Pharo do everything by itself? i don’t think so
i used to feel like i could not leave Smalltalk
and andy’s comments and bullet proof correctness
because the outside world was such a barrier to entry
and the outside world was always missing something
that makes Smalltalk essential and so i felt like i
could not use those other things
but if Smalltalk could be added to those other things
then they could be ok and i could see using them
like Racket clojure CommonLisp Shen Coq Haskell SwiProlog
StrawberryProlog Pixie Forth Factor etc Ruby except it’s got a hell
of a syntax
erlang
if Smalltalk could be added to them then they could be ok
but without Smalltalk they look just like hell to me what a
travesty
unusable
i don’t like anything that smells like C all the C like like java etc
although turbo C was very nice so they had to kill it get rid of
it
because it’s like they are so inferior and yet everybody’s
first language is just like the quick sand you sink right into
never to be heard from again because God forbid you
should have to go through that again once is enough
so you sink right in never to be heard from again in any other venue
and it’s like these were just the langs that worked first
they got the network effect first and became the monopoly
and that’s why people use them because God forbid
for bid that you should learn something new we all say
if Smalltalk could be like the front end of some other things
Racket CommonLisp Shen etc then That is what i want
and Smalltalk could be a back end too for things that it
does well like i want to use gemstone etc
let everything do what it does best and let them all talk
to each other is what i want
that’s the BorgLisp idea
